JJ Biel-Goebel is a program manager at the Industry leading Center for Advanced Transportation Technology lab at the University of Maryland. The CATT Lab as it is affectionately called focuses on big data science as it relates to the transportation industry. JJ leads efforts in the manipulation, archrival and visualization of petabyte size datasets used by a variety of companies, government agencies and universities. Previously JJ was Lead Engineer on the Chinook Integrated Product Team in charge of affordable redesign. As such, JJ has direct leadership of a team of engineers, planners and support personnel on two continents responsible for redesigning large sections of the airframe. Prior to this position JJ had functional responsibility for over 500 engineers supporting and managed the development and deployment of processes, tools and training on the Chinook Program. JJ has also held the role of functional process lead within the Mechanical/structural Engineering function at the enterprise level, supporting 4,600 designers and analysts for structures, mechanical/fluid systems, support and training equipment. Learn More.

Currently, JJ is working on small robotics projects in the DC area with some unbelievable team mates.

Experience

Program Manager

Program Manager: Multi-site team made up of over 80 full and part time programmers working on industry leading transportation and big data visualization web tools.
• Migrate lab from startup business model to mid-size business model.
• Manage IT organization, agile software development, software load testing, research activities, and publication writing.
• Capture work from international, academic and commercial customers and put in place CRM
• Coordinate real time 24/7 customer support activities and software maintenance services.
• Improve on time delivery from 2 months late to 1 week early, product quality from using customers as testers to standing up an in house quality team, moved lab from SVN/Trac to GIT/Jira and put in place continuous integration servers with document configuration controls.
• Direct transition from relational PostgreSQL to Hadoop, from no redundant capability to multisite 24/7 SLA capable.
• Lead staff, hiring / firing, performance reviews, individual growth, team dynamics and culture change.

Functional Lead: Core Engineering

Process Architect: Multi-site team made up of senior level subject matter experts and reported to team of executives and VP’s
• Documented Boeing Defense Systems’ Mechanical/ Structural common Design process that were flowed out to over 30,000 engineers to support current programs and new business activities.
• Streamlined Boeing Defense System’s design tools company policies, procedures in accordance with government regulations and statues to reduce IT spending by over $10mil annually.
• Recognized as a structures & mechanical systems design subject matter expert and assisted in creating training, web pages, videos, over 100 documents.
• Participated in several non advocate reviews for active programs, technical decisions, IT and purchases with Boeing and Military senior leadership.

Design Engineer: Aviation Programs

Senior Designer: Selected to be part of high performance quick response team to support programs in need of stop gap multi-disciplined engineers
• Supported commercial wide body jet design for several Boeing products enabling programs to recover schedule and cost.
• Supported foreign countries and the United States military large fixed wing aircraft program integration and design for manufacturing efforts to enable programs to recover cost and schedule while increasing their production rates and first time quality metrics.
• Completed work as a designer, structural analyst, loads engineer, test lead, damage tolerance analyst, repairs analysis, sustainment documentation and process designer while coordinating with maintenance teams across the globe.
• Programs include: MH-47, AH-64, MH-60, 747, 787, 737, MMA, 767, B1, and other non-standard unmanned products.

Engineer: Structures Design

Designer: Recognized as most productive engineer on a 20 member team tasked with redesigning and converting engineering from 2D to 3D large sections of a 50 year airframe to reduce production costs.
• Cemented design knowledge for composites, machining, sheet metal, assembly design and FT&A in a model based environment.

Shake Improvements

The shake position is the final inspection position on a product assembly line. The inspection and repair hours had been increasing for several years and a team was tasked with identifying root causes and implementing a corrective action plan to…View